Having problems to motivate yourself? There is one simple trick

How to motivate yourself through reading and listening

About four years ago I discovered that when I feel demotivated and I start getting kind of ‘depression’ associated with doing nothing, there is one simple way that can put me back on my feet. For the first time I experienced this feeling when I started looking for texts about improving personal efficiency.

I noticed that reading one article improves my mood and raises motivation. The more I read, the more I want to do. Then I feel super charged with positive energy and start working. The enthusiasm, unfortunately, passes when I stop to read books on time management, motivation and efficiency improvement.

Motivating by reading

Marcin Sobociński wrote about the same thing on his blog and entitled it “Motivating by reading“. This is the right description of this “phenomenon” which I like a lot since that time. And in moments when I lack energy, I reach out for reading – I read business psychology, stories of successful people, I am looking for new methods for time management, and after a short while I become on my feet again and I get back to work. Our mind needs to be nourished, loaded with new knowledge, we need to wake up the imagination. But all this does not come from nowhere. Neither watching TV or pointless browsing of colorful magazines will not bring this to us. You have to read and search. Already 15 minutes a day will charge you with the energy you have always dreamed of, and with the time being will open the window to new opportunities, because your mind will be intensively analyzing the newly learnt knowledge. Steve Pavlin also writes about this phenomenon on his site. His story is amazing. It starts with how he found himself at the very bottom of demotivation. It was then when intensive reading and listening to various psychological texts encouraged him to act. He also writes about the fact that you still have to read and that he cannot stop it, because then his motivation decreases.

What reading can give to you

It is very easy. I like to read a few pages in the morning and I guarantee that each of you is able to spend 15 minutes a day reading or listening to an audiobook (maybe on the way to work, maybe during exercise or when you have a little time for yourself). It’s free, but the effects can be amazing. If you recharge positively in the morning, you will absorb this positive energy for entire day. If you read about time management, you will plan the day better and do more. If you read about goals, then who knows – maybe you finally decide what you would like to do in life and then you will immediately take an action :-)? If you read about habits, maybe you will work on them and improve your entire life? Readings apart from motivation gives you much more – this is the mine with the solutions.

I really recommend this. Simple, easy, doable. The idea does not cost a penny, but it is worth millions !!!